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yahoo
English
Etymology 1
From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?j??hu?/
Noun
yahoo (plural yahoos)
- (derogatory) A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth person; yokel; lout.
- (cryptozoology) A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
- 1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, ?ISBN, who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report
- The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.
- 1985, Michael Raynal, Yahoos in the Bahamas, Cryptozoology, volume 4:
- 1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, ?ISBN, who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report
Synonyms
- (a rough, coarse, or uncouth person): yokel, lout
Etymology 2
Expressive.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j??hu?/
Interjection
yahoo
- An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
- A battle cry.
Verb
yahoo (third-person singular simple present yahoos, present participle yahooing, simple past and past participle yahooed)
- To give a cry of "yahoo".
- (Internet, informal) To search using the Yahoo! search engine.
- 2008, Frederick Thomas, Buddha's Bones, Buddha's Bones (?ISBN), page 46:
- I searched, Yahooed, Googled and everything else I could.
- 2017, Rajendra Pillai, Unearthed: Discover Life as God's Masterpiece, New Hope Publishers (?ISBN)
- In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?).
- 2007, Tell
- Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!
- 2008, Frederick Thomas, Buddha's Bones, Buddha's Bones (?ISBN), page 46:
References
Anagrams
- ooyah
yahoo From the web:
- what yahoo means
- what yahoo apps are there
- what yahoo accounts do i have
- what yahoo finance
- what yahoo groups do i belong to
- what yahoo can do
- what yahoo boy did to a girl
- what yahoo help us
yaroo
English
Interjection
yaroo
- Alternative form of yarooh
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Anagrams
- Oorya, oroya
yaroo From the web:
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